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  1. Re:Christopher Pike? on Star Trek Premiere Gets Standing Ovation, Surprise Showing In Austin · · Score: 1

    Can you give me your spoiler-free opinion of Watchmen?

    Its worth going to the cinema to watch it. I enjoyed it a lot, but it took a while to come to that conclusion. It was along time ago that I read the book.

  2. Re:WOW on MacBook's "Unremovable" Battery Easy To Remove · · Score: 1

    What do you think a cars life is ?, our older car is 10 years old done 65,000 miles and I am getting the third set of tires put on tomorrow ( was mitchelin soon to be good-year ). I think it may have had its battery replaced in that time but I can be sure.

    I wouldn't be surprise if the Toyota Avensis is happy for another 3 to 10 years.

  3. Re:WOW on MacBook's "Unremovable" Battery Easy To Remove · · Score: 1

    Batteries are guaranteed for 300 charge cycles.

    system_profiler | grep -i "cycle count"
    Cycle count: 85

  4. Re:When is backing up *not* an option? on Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution · · Score: 1

    If you have lots of data, I don't see how tapes are really going to do the daily backup jobs.

    More tape drives, idiot, and parallel backups. Mainframes and OpenVMS have been doing it that way for decades.

    If you have lots of data you need to do the maths about how much it costs to back the data up. And how much it costs to reconstruct the data again and decide whether it is worth backing the data up or not.

    You also need to consider how long it will take you to do the restore from the backup. If you have 4 petabytes for example backing up a sizable proportion of that space takes a lot of time and energy.

    However I would be surprised if this was the case here and not having a database backup is incompetent unless the sysadmin has writtern proof of the rejected po's.

  5. Re:Double Duh! on Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution · · Score: 1

    Three kernel panics in 2 days is pretty bad...
    I have seen more linux kernel panics than OSX ones however we have more of those than the macs.

  6. Re:Parent needs remodding Insightful on UK Police Want DNA of 'Potential Offenders' · · Score: 1

    I joined after reading about how photographers where being hassled by the police, the shocking thing is how small my membership number is.
    A good organisation I have had no disagreements with in the past I should have joined years ago.

  7. Well I suspect they have a case. on Ford Claims Ownership Of Your Pictures · · Score: 1

    As someone who enjoys taking photos I buy a couple of photo mags a month ( no not that sort....) and two of them have an article this month on your legal rights (I am a UK citizen YMMV) and in the UK designs such as buildings and cars for example are designs under copyright.

    Anyway have a look at http://copyrightservice.co.uk/protect/p15_design_rights

    After reading about the terrorist laws been used against random photographers/people I decide I had to join liberty http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/ So my hobby has done some good.

  8. Re:well that's funny on Rowling Sues Harry Potter Lexicon · · Score: 1

    I suspect it will be gift-aided myself.

  9. Re:well that's funny on Rowling Sues Harry Potter Lexicon · · Score: 2, Informative

    I just wanted to point out that she is writing an encyclopedia the profits from the sale will go to her charity, I believe she has also said if she wins the case the profits from the court case will also go to her charity.

  10. Re:nope, doesn't hurt RH on Is CentOS Hurting Red Hat? · · Score: 1

    One reason corps buy real licenses is that they want to run packages which are only certified on Redhat and not on Centos. Its the support of the package which is important not the OS.

  11. Re:I didn't get far... on iPhone Doesn't Surf Fast Enough for Jobs · · Score: 1

    http://www.thocp.net/timeline/uk.htmWhiteChapel MG-1 Although I used one in 1987 but they were not new then.

  12. Re:Tmobile UK on T-Mobile UK Blocking Mobile VoIP Start-Up · · Score: 1

    Orange have an all you can eat add on for weekend and night (7pm to 7am ) which is 5 pounds a month.

  13. Re: Why is this news? on DNS Stressed From Financial Maneuverings · · Score: 1

    Currently I pay 8.50 every two years which is 19 dollars every two years. I remember it being 50 pounds back in 2000.

  14. Re:Hope it's better than the dyson... on Dyson Preparing a Roomba Killer? · · Score: 1

    The difference is in the drop in suction over time, with a normal vacuum cleaner after half a room its lost a lot of it's suck :) the dyson has a constantly high vacuum.

  15. Re:Hope it's better than the dyson... on Dyson Preparing a Roomba Killer? · · Score: 3, Interesting
    OK I have had a Dyson for 12 years.

    The first one died after 26 months they fixed it for free, when it was out of the 2 year warranty

    I have recently bought a second one when one of the bits fell off after another 9 years.

    They are solid vac's that can pick up my wife's long hair from the carpet.

  16. Re:I wonder who these "computer experts" are? on British Cops Hack Into Government Computers · · Score: 1

    20 odd years ago my Maths teacher who was IMHO very very bright mentioned that they had asked him quietly if would like to join up, he politely declined. He was about 25 when he was teaching me as fair as I can remember. If that was the calibre of people they have then they have some good people.

  17. Re:**Bullshit** on Researchers Work Around Hepatitis Drug Patent · · Score: 1
    Vista is not an average piece of software, people seem to be guessing that it cost's about 10 billion to develop.

    While the average drug cost's between .8 and 2 billion dollars to develop. The cost are pretty simular I would say.

    Most of the money in actual development is caused by the amount of care taken in developing the drug, There is a definite wish not to kill people. Now if we could only reduce the cost of advertising.

  18. Re:Zune Specs and what I don't understand on The Zune Cometh · · Score: 1

    I too get about the rated life on the battery, unless I been using the bluetooth dongle I have which brings it down to about 5 or 6 hours for music.

  19. As long as you don't complain about the result on Is An Uninformed Vote Better Than No Vote? · · Score: 1

    I suspect it is responsible not to vote, however but not informing yourself you have lost the right to complain about what ever your government does.

    We could get in to the long discussion about the right to vote but read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moon_Is_a_Harsh_M istress The moon is a harsh mistress for some options.

  20. An alternative on AnalogWhole, an Alternative To FairUse4WM · · Score: 2, Informative

    Look at http://www.highcriteria.com/ Total recorder when I was more windows centric I used it and I was happy.

  21. Re:Am I the only one ... on UK's Biggest Supermarket Challenges Microsoft · · Score: 1
    This happened before I joined my current company, although I do believe it to be true.

    Tesco once imported a large number of e-macs, these where quiet cheap. We use lots of macs. So the it department went to the nearest big Tesco and bought their stock ( about 20 of them ). Apparently one of the guys put it on his credit card and got the loyaty "points". Not all buisness are the same some thing differently.

    Ps the company is successfull and is not so small.

  22. Re:If people want an alternative to the de facto.. on UK's Biggest Supermarket Challenges Microsoft · · Score: 3, Funny
    http://download.openoffice.org/2.0.3/index.html

    So the big green area doesn't say download ?

  23. Re:What I'd like to see... on Handicapping the 6th Generation iPod · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A2DP
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A2DP

    The quality is good way above 8KHz. They are the best wireless headphones I have used ( my wired set are grado 60s )

  24. Re:Summary headline is incorrect. on Why Microsoft Is Beating Apple At Its Own Game · · Score: 1
    Toyota is the number 1 car manufacturer but that doesn't mean they're BMW or Lexus' primary competition.

    Sorry but who do you think makes the lexus :)

    ©2006 Lexus, a Division of Toyota Motor Sales.

    And apple are definitely the lexus of the computer world, having been driven at 120 down the motorway by a chauffeur in one (it was silent)

  25. Re:Scared, I am... on Heinlein's Last Novel Coming in September · · Score: 3, Informative

    Spider Robinson is an excelent author in his own right. I own atleast 5 of his books and he is known to be an old time Heinlein fan. He is the best choice I can think of to do the job and I suspect it will be a good book. I not sure if they have the names the right way round on the cover though :)